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Posted by Kerry Brown on July 8, 2008, 10:53 pm
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>>> It is reaching the point now when the majority of computers are infected
>>> by some kind of spyware.
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> | Some people consider Windows spyware but other than this do you have
> | statistics to back this up. My experience certainly doesn't show this to
> be
> | true.
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> Maybe not specifically spyware but malware of some kind in general.
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> Hell, take an unpatched Wintel PC and connect it to the Internet w/o a
> FireWall and see
> how long it stays clean.
>
I guess it depends on your definition of spyware. I took the post to mean
spyware = malware. My experience is that maybe forty percent of the
computers I see in the course of doing business are infected with malware.
I'm sure the general population is much lower than that. People only call me
in when something is wrong so my sample is skewed. I'm not trying to make
light of the malware problem. It's the most serious issue with computers
today and it's getting worse. I don't however believe the assertion that
more than 50% of the computers in the world are infected with malware.
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Kerry Brown
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